u/This-is_CMGRI

Remember this prompt? Now that The Boys season 5 is running and Homelander is getting some potentially big buffs, I wanna revisit it, but with a slight twist.

Homelander, Soldier Boy and Black Noir still roll into an empty Shinjuku Station looking superior, not knowing that waiting outside the building are the following:

Source Manga	Group 1	Group 2
Dandadan	Ken "Okarun" Takakura	Jin Enjoji
Kimetsu no Yaiba	Tanjiro Kamado	Giyuu Tomioka
Jujutsu Kaisen	Yuji Itadori (Modulo)	Yuta Okkotsu
Kagurabachi	Chihiro Rokuhira	Shiba Togo
My Hero Academia	Bakugo Katsuki	Izuku Midoriya
Sakamoto Days	Shin Asakura	Taro Sakamoto
Chainsaw Man	Denji	Aki Hayakawa
Jigokuraku	Aza Chobei	Gabimaru

In both scenarios, the two groups only have exactly 600 seconds to definitively kill all three of their targets, after which it gets way too crowded and the collateral makes fighting a no-go. Most importantly, no allied losses. If even one of them dis, it's game over.

Just like before, simply pick one group and determine their level of success. How will their interactions go? In what ways will powers mix up? What difference will V1 make now that Homelander has it?

Or, phrased differently: given that the artist and author for Hyakkano exist in the characters' material reality no matter the medium (manga, anime, games) and clearly the harem knows they're fictional, how does one delineate between the Watsonian (in-lore) explanations and the Doylist (off-text) explanations?

Related to this: we know the girlfriends read the manga as it's being written (same with the anime) so they must already know that the Love God cursed every girl with death by loss of soulmate. Do you reckon they just operate on a quiet honor system because the alternative is breaking Rentarou's heart because he knows the whole setup is cursed?